{"id":311,"date":"2007-09-26T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2007-09-26T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T20:08:00","slug":"guest-post-with-the-campfire-grrrls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/09\/26\/guest-post-with-the-campfire-grrrls\/","title":{"rendered":"GUEST POST: With the Campfire Grrrls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is guest blogger Marco<\/a> with the first in a series of posts here on Girl With Pen<\/span> where I aim to examine cultural and media-enabled myths and expectations regarding men \u00e2\u20ac\u201d our desires, peeves, habits and obsessions, such as they are. But first, a few words to explain my feature title, lest I be confused with those oily, sarcastic, Coors-and-testosterone-addled shlubs who haunt the comment threads over at Broadsheet<\/a>. <\/p>\n

No sarcasm is intended. I’ve adopted the “good sport” moniker as a kind of badge of honor ever since it was bestowed on me by Nona Willis-Aronowitz at dinner. To explain further: after Dee’s reading at New York’s KGB Bar<\/a> recently, we went out for a chocolate dinner reward at the Bald Man (aka Max Brenner<\/a>) with Lauren Sandler<\/a> and Nona Willis-Aronowitz<\/a> (but you knew that already if you read this post<\/a>). I’m a big fan of Broadsheet (and of course Girl w\/Pen) because I happen to enjoy listening to smart, funny, sassy women, whether the subject is “the patriarchy” or relationships\u00e2\u20ac\u201d and there was a whole lot of talk on the latter at this particular venue. To be fair, we also touched on Nona’s upcoming road trip and Dee’s traveling WomenGirlsLadies<\/a> panel; it all coalesced around talking up, rediscovering and re-mapping the American Woman between the coasts, between cities and between easy polarities. <\/p>\n

There’s something cozily mesmerizing about following the Moebius loop of women talking about women talking; something also about the instant camaraderie of firing marshmallows over the table brazier and sharing dark chocolate fondue \u00e2\u20ac\u201d probably the closest I’ve yet come to summer camp (not a typical option back in my ‘hood, back in the day). Anyhow, when Lauren’s husband and a buddy showed up it was suddenly three boys to three girls, and there was a palpable thump, like ballast shifting in the hold of a ship when it changes course. Nona sort of shook her head as if to clear it and smiled at me. “You’ve been a good sport for putting up with all the Sex-and-the-City stuff,” she said. I smiled back and shrugged. “Not at all. It was fun.” And it was. Now it was time for the men to high-five and reel out the batting averages… not. The new subject was Lauren and Justin’s cool digs in Williamsburg\u00e2\u20ac\u201d midcentury modern or New York eclectic<\/a>? <\/p>\n

Domicile trumps locker room. Almost always OK by me.<\/p>\n

My next post: lock and load\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Halo 3 hits the streets and guy-outlets like Spike TV go into frenzy mode.<\/span> Meanwhile that study<\/span><\/a> on guys, gals and first-person shooter games surfaces in The Economist<\/span>, and makes Jezebel<\/span><\/a> go “Hmmm…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is guest blogger Marco with the first in a series of posts here on Girl With Pen where I aim to examine cultural and media-enabled myths and expectations regarding men \u00e2\u20ac\u201d our desires, peeves, habits and obsessions, such as they are. But first, a few words to explain my feature title, lest I be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[876],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-men"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}